A blog by Campaspe Regional Library to talk about genealogy and family history, ask questions, highlight useful sites and share tips.

Friday, December 27, 2013

Memoire Des Hommes

Mémoire des hommes intends to provide the public with digitised
documents and data from the archives and collections held by the Ministry of
Defence of France. France lost over 1.4 million men in WW1 and you can find a certificate for each man on the website. Searches are done by name and the scans of the documents show where a man was from and when and where he died. The Minister for Defence proposes that users of the site annotate the pages of
certain useful digitised documents for genealogy and searching in local history.